At sixteen, people receive a blessing from the animal gods that can determine their career field. An anxious Sophia attends the ritual, just not wanting to attract excessive attention, and ends up with the blessing of the gorilla god. It turns out that the gorilla blessing is extremely rare but highly desired…for combat-related jobs. Given… Read More First Impression: The Gorilla God’s Go-To Girl
Trigger warning: This episode show depicts an on-screen suicide. If such things affect you negatively, you may be better off skipping it. Lin Ling wants to be a superhero, but the best he can do right now is work on superhero PR campaigns. Specifically, he is doing the new presentation about Nice, the white-haired Superman-style… Read More First Impression: To Be Hero X
Yaiba Kurogane is one kooky wild child. Raised by his father, Kenjuro, in the jungles of Japan, Yaiba has one goal and one goal only: to be the strongest samurai ever. After sparring with a powerful gorilla, our little bro seems pretty cocky…that is, until the gorilla’s friends come along to get revenge for their… Read More First Impression: Yaiba: Samurai Legend
It’s the year 2052. We’re now living in a time when, thanks to a genius scientist named Dr. Skinner, a miracle painkiller called Hapna has made the world much better. It’s seriously one of the best pharmaceuticals to come along in human history, thanks to its low cost and no side effects. Prodigious, right? What… Read More First Impression: Lazarus
From the dawn of time, mankind’s intelligence has been used for war. Its crown achievement was the fearsome living weapons known as Gears, against which the Crusades were fought. But one day, Ky Kiske, the sword-wielding guardian of Humanity and chief of the International Police Force, fell in love with a Gear: Dizzy, of the… Read More First Impression: Guilty Gear Strive: Dual Rulers
Welcome to the Gloria Academy, a series of Hogwarts-like white castles in the middle of a city where students wear a punk version of 1700s attire. A red-haired transfer student decides not to wait for his assigned teacher and explores the facilities instead. He’s fierce, impatient, and a passionate boxer exiled from the ring after… Read More First Impression: Classic★Stars
Kujirai is a pretty efficient office worker, keen to do a good job, but you probably couldn’t tell that from her morning routine, which is more in keeping with a disaffected, unemployed 30-something who never quite caught a break in life. She smokes and sighs and squints repeatedly, pinching the bridge of her nose, as… Read More First Impression: Kowloon Generic Romance
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